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Watch A Satellite’s Stunning View Of An Entire Day Passing On Earth
Images from the weather satellite Himawari-8, put into motion by analyst Charlie Loyd, are like nothing you’ve seen before.
At any given moment, right above of our atmosphere, hundreds of satellites are constantly circling Earth—collecting data on everything from climatic conditions to the aerosol levels in the atmosphere. One such spacecraft, the Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8, hovers 22,000 miles above the planet, orbiting the Earth exactly as fast as the Earth is spinning—capturing the full experience of a single day on our planet, from sunrise to sunset.
Now, in one incredible online visualization called Glittering Blue, 24 hours of the satellite imagery has been condensed into a looping 12-second film.
See the complete graphic here https://glittering.blue
Glittering Blue was created by Charlie Loyd, a satellite-imagery analyst for Mapbox (though Glittering Blue is his own side project), and it’s well worth going to the site itself and scrolling around. Centered squarely above Japan, the satellite captures images of the western Pacific, Australia, and parts of Asia, Antarctica, and Alaska. Showing the visual data for just one day, August 5, 2015, the video shows rare and incredible shots of Typhoon Soudelor (known in the Philippines as Typhoon Hanna) near its peak intensity, gusting at about 177 miles per hour.
Images from the weather satellite Himawari-8, put into motion by analyst Charlie Loyd, are like nothing you’ve seen before.
At any given moment, right above of our atmosphere, hundreds of satellites are constantly circling Earth—collecting data on everything from climatic conditions to the aerosol levels in the atmosphere. One such spacecraft, the Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8, hovers 22,000 miles above the planet, orbiting the Earth exactly as fast as the Earth is spinning—capturing the full experience of a single day on our planet, from sunrise to sunset.
Now, in one incredible online visualization called Glittering Blue, 24 hours of the satellite imagery has been condensed into a looping 12-second film.
See the complete graphic here https://glittering.blue
Glittering Blue was created by Charlie Loyd, a satellite-imagery analyst for Mapbox (though Glittering Blue is his own side project), and it’s well worth going to the site itself and scrolling around. Centered squarely above Japan, the satellite captures images of the western Pacific, Australia, and parts of Asia, Antarctica, and Alaska. Showing the visual data for just one day, August 5, 2015, the video shows rare and incredible shots of Typhoon Soudelor (known in the Philippines as Typhoon Hanna) near its peak intensity, gusting at about 177 miles per hour.
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